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Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021)
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Neel Nanda
Post 43: Intentionally Making Close Friends — Neel Nanda
One of the most valuable experiments I ever ran was intentionally practicing the skill of making close friends, and this directly led to most of my friends today. This post is the story of that experiment, and distills the lessons learned
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Once lush Sahara was home to a surprisingly unique group of humans
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ScienceAlert
Once Lush Sahara Was Home to a Surprisingly Unique Group of Humans
Then the sands came.
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A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans
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Smithsonian Magazine
You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the Opposite: Bugs Are Actually Shrimp of the Land
A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans on the tree of life
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You might not need WebSockets
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hntrl.io
You might not need Websockets
Websockets are powerful tools that have become a fan-favorite for building realtime applications, but you might be using them for all the wrong reasons. Let's explore the pitfalls of websockets and how we can use plain old HTTP to get the same job done.
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Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch
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Hodinkee
Vacheron Constantin Breaks The World Record for Most Complicated Wristwatch With The Les Cabinotiers ‘Solaria Ultra Grand Complication’…
With 41 complications and having taken eight years to craft, the Solaria is the perfect way for Vacheron to celebrate 270 years.
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AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem
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Substack
AI Coding and The Peanut Butter & Jelly Problem
Why clear communication—not clever prompts—is your real AI superpower
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That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows
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Ars Technica
That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
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Science
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms
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Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
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Emergent Grimoire
Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
Review of guidelines for using in-game currencies in the European Union.
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$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money
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Data and Politics
$70 Million in 60 Seconds: How Insider Information Helped Someone 28x Their Money
On April 9, 2025, someone risked $2.5 million on SPY call options—and walked away with $70+ million in under an hour. The trade was placed at 1:01 pm. At 1:30 pm, Trump announced tariff pauses. The market exploded upward. These options that cost 85 cents…
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Google Is Winning on Every AI Front
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Thealgorithmicbridge
Google Is Winning on Every AI Front
Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point
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Googler... ex-Googler
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nerdy.dev
G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler.
My role at Google was eliminated.
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Dev Tools Honeytrap: Why We Can't Stop Building Tools Nobody Buys
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Substack
Home | Substack
The app for independent voices
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Palantir Is Helping Doge with a Massive IRS Data Project
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WIRED
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.
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Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers
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CNBC
Google will let companies run its Gemini AI models in their own data centers
While developers of AI models have generally refrained from opening up access beyond their data centers, Google's announcement suggests that may be changing.
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The Bitter Prediction
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4zm.org
The Bitter Prediction - The Ivory Tower
The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.
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Every picture from Venus' surface, ever (2021)
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The Planetary Society
Every picture from Venus' surface, ever
In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only images of Venus’ surface.
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Why Your 'Harmonious' Team Is Failing
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Terrible Software
Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing
Teams often confuse psychological safety with everyone getting along perfectly. I see leaders bragging about teams where nobody ever raises their voice, where meetings wrap up with everyone nodding…
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AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
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The Register
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
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Open source and self hostable/private file converter
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vert.sh
VERT.sh — Free, fast, and awesome file converter
With VERT you can quickly convert any image, video and audio file. No ads, no tracking, open source, and all processing (other than video) is done on your device.
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